tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:32:14 +0000Adam SanetraChicagoMazurkiewiczPaul SanetraSanetraZywiecimmigrationEllis IslandPolandJanek or JanikJewish1920 CensusBaranowskiBazarnikBronislawa SanetraCatholicWWIIWWI draft cardJoseph SanetraNaturalizationNazi'sStanley SanetraKlosakMinneapolisWandzelZablociegenealogy resourceguestbooklinkorphanagewebsiteBennie SanetraBielKrakowWojtascemeterymapmarriage recordpicturesCatholic ChurchJozef SanetraKwiatkowskiNasluchaczPGSAholocaustrecordsship manifestCatherine StoweErvin SanetraGaliciaGowinThomas SanetradigitizingwarŻywiec-ZabłocieAncestry.comBronislaw SanetraChicago City DirectoryChicago flu epidemicDrechnyJadwiga SanetraLachLudwig SanetraMalinowskiNew YorkSt. AdalbertsVirginiadeath cert.familysearchhousepurpose of blog1930 CensusBialekCaputaCenderCensus mapsDetroitHamburg ship registryHelen SanetraKarolewskiKolbuszowaLVAMarszowskiMinskPantera or PonteraPiecuchPolish MuseumRussianSandakWisconsinWojcikbookdatabasefamilysearch wikihistoryinterviewmoney changename changenewspapersobitorganizationvideowedding191819281930AlfredaAnita LobelAnyszewskiAuschwitzAustriaBeesBerky PierBlachaBohemian Ntl cem.BukowskiBürgerCarynskiChicago street changesCiechocinekClevelandCovaizkaCzarneckiDaileyDemczyszynDendysDoboszDurejDziennik ChicagoskiEric KellyFeliksovnaFilipekFlorkoFlowersFredericksburgGary INGeorge SanetraGielataGonkieGoogleGrabekHillquistHoffmanHoffmannHoly Trinity ChurchIndianaKankakeeKarpinskiKastelinkKellerKelminiskiKozkaKremkoskiKubasLake MichiganLeborkLientarskaLukaMachonMahonMarylandMaslonkaMathuszewskaMatuszekMatuszewskiMichael SanetraMieczowskiMonskaO'KeefeO'SheaOczkowska or OczkowskiOstrowskaPedigree chartPetsoltPickerPilarskiPorenskiPoznanRed CrossReedRoseRosenthalSajnerSharfSikoraSkochinskiSkoczynskiSlaskieSmarzowskiSotkaSrokaSt. Anthony's ParishSt. Charles ILSt. Florian churchSt. Gabriel cemeterySt. Hedwig'sStefanczykSzalankiewicsSzczotkaSznolonekThonTomashevskajaTrojanUrbanskaWaloszekWarsaw Board of InquiryWisconsin CapitalWisconsin DellsWłoch or VlachZaderZyzakbaptismblog updatesburial permitsbusiness-shopcarpentercemeterieschurchesfamily group recordfindagravefloodgraduationhandicapindexinglettermapsmigrationmilitaryobituariespreservingrailroadrebuildreligionreligious freedomrootstechschoolsstoriesunionunknown pictureswikiyearbooksPolish families from Żywiec-Zabłocie, Polska (Slaskie)Trying to reconnect my Polish relatives separated by war, immigration, and orphan situations. So we can remember what our ancestors lived for and loved.
(Poland, Chicago, New York City, and Minneapolis)http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)Blogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-7614244574624876787Tue, 10 Mar 2015 03:14:00 +00002015-03-10T00:14:17.144-04:00Ancestry.comdatabasedigitizingfamilysearchindexingobituariesrootstechwebsiteExciting FamilySearch explanations at Rootstech 2015 <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This month I have been busy enjoying watching Rootstech videos and preparing for our local Family History Day conference, which will be this Saturday. I'm giving a presentation (locally) on how to get around in the FamilySearch Family Tree and how to do searching on FamilySearch. Like using the filters, FamilySearch wiki etc. I really loved watching Dear Myrtle's Ambush cams at Rootstech. They were so fun to watch, I felt like I got to meet people. </span></span><br /><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the first things I loved about FamilySearch is how it's really worldwide oriented. (Not just the United States.) And how we're all connected, the bigger picture. One of the early record collections on FamilySearch was the 1895 Argentina Census, where I saw some Cabitto relatives. Most databases before, were based on the English soundex systems. Which really doesn't help you if you have a Russian (or really any Non-English) surname. On FamilySearch.org, if you type in a residence or birth place outside the United States it searches similar spellings to the that ethnicity. For example, when I searched "Sanetra" and typed "born in Poland", it looked up spellings like Szanetra, Scanetra, and Zanetra.&nbsp; I got a lot more search results that were real possibilities. Mazurkiwicz and Wandzel had a lot more variations which was very helpful because I never would have thought clerks or other record keepers would spell it those other ways. English soundex spellings and pronunciations would just not work for these types of names!!</span></span><br /><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's some impressive things I learned watching Rootstech videos this week. I watched these sections of the videos a few times to make sure I wrote the numbers down correctly: FamilySearch CEO Dennis Brimhall talked about the benefits of the partnerships with FamilySearch (Thurs keynote). Currently FamilySearch is partnering with: Ancestry.com, Find My Past, My Heritage,&nbsp; American Ancestors (New England Historical Genealogical Society), family me, and Global Family Reunion. Brimhall told about a project he was excited about, saying this was a great example of benefits to the partnerships and he thanked the CEO of Ancestry.com. FamilySearch did a project of filming 80 million church and civil records for Mexico in 1952. He explained there are not enough Spanish speaking indexers for this project. It would take 40 years for FamilySearch volunteers to complete this project. But Ancestry.com has asked to help do the indexing for this project and they said it will be done and available by the end of this year! FamilySearch and Ancestry.com also made 545 million records available and visible on both sites this year. FamilySearch will always keep their site free, even with their partnerships. </span></span><br /><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ron Tanner, a lead developer for FamilySearch gave these amazing numbers in his presentation called: FamilySearch FamilyTree 2014 and Beyond:</span></span><br /><ul><li><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They do updates 3 times a day.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">approximately 2.5 million new persons added to the tree every month</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">approximately 2.6 million conclusions that are changed/written every month</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4.5 million sources added to the tree each month</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1.1 billion persons in the tree with 89 million sources</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In a year FamilySearch went from 12 million to 89 million sources!</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Feb 2011, a pilot version of FamilySearch was released. I'm happy to say that I was one of the beta testers! In March 2013 it was released to the public. It's really exciting to see all the record collections continuously added from around the world. On 27 Feb 2015, 19.2 million record were added from Canada, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and the United States. Dennis&nbsp;</span></span>Brimhall said during the Thursday Keynote address that FamilySearch partnered with Genealogy Bank to do over 100 million names from obituaries last year. 319,000 volunteers worked on these obituaries last year. That was 1.3 million names every day going into Family Search. Pretty amazing things are happening! One thing I liked though, with all this cool hi-tech stuff I was seeing, Joshua Taylor (at RootsTech) talked about the tech things he couldn't live without, yet he said he still needed his library card. A good balance I think. One last partnership with FamilySearch that I'm personally excited about, wasn't actually part of Rootstech. It's a partnership with the country of Italy. Familysearch is indexing and making accessible the Italian civil records. Below is today's status on the familysearch indexing page. (9 March 2015) Also below is 1 of 3 indexing collections our Italian Cabittos need and are looking forward to. No matter your ethnicity or nationality, if it's not there yet, it's coming! </span></div><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zZzB8wrhjOY/VP5TYEbhbFI/AAAAAAAAV5I/n1PbbjcNGVQ/s1600/Indexing.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zZzB8wrhjOY/VP5TYEbhbFI/AAAAAAAAV5I/n1PbbjcNGVQ/s1600/Indexing.JPG" height="94" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bfYL8kX82Hg/VP5TYHKK9CI/AAAAAAAAV5M/GBmyMLBpBqs/s1600/Savona.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bfYL8kX82Hg/VP5TYHKK9CI/AAAAAAAAV5M/GBmyMLBpBqs/s1600/Savona.JPG" height="253" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2015/03/exciting-familysearch-explanations-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-150177617016886878Mon, 02 Mar 2015 01:17:00 +00002015-03-01T20:17:36.288-05:00Polish surnames, websites to help<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I read an interesting article in the PGSA email list sent today (1 Mar 2015) "Gen Dobry!". It was written by Fred Hoffman, titled<b>: Another surname resource: Locate My Name</b>.&nbsp; </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>&nbsp;</b>(I'm not seeing a link or I'd put it here.) So in summary, there is a Polish name section of this site. Benefits include that the site is in English, and you don't have to know the special characters of other alphabets etc. The site is very simple and also has frequent updates so you'll want to keep checking it out.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.locatemyname.com/">http://www.locatemyname.com/</a></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mr Hoffman also recommends these 2 links. He states, "<span>Both have their flaws and idiosyncracies; and both are in Polish."&nbsp; </span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span>&lt;</span><span><a href="http://www.herby.com.pl/indexslo.html" target="_blank"><b>http://www.herby.com.pl/<wbr></wbr>indexslo.html</b></a></span><span>&gt; and &lt;</span><span><a href="http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/" target="_blank"><b>http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/</b></a></span><span><wbr></wbr>&gt;.&nbsp;</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>I find sites like these about surnames helpful tools. </span></span></span>I thought I'd test out the site myself. I'm thinking I may have looked at the site a few years ago and that there is much more than the last time I looked. I know Sanetra is not that common of a surname, this confirms that. The site shows the name shows up in United States, UK, France, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Poland, and South Africa. I clicked on Poland, and here is the search results:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.locatemyname.com/usa/Sanetra">http://www.locatemyname.com/usa/Sanetra</a>. It shows what they can account for with records and what they estimate the surname is. There's a highlighted map, and statistics given world wide on the name. They also give common first names that go with the surname, and blogs about the surname. My surname of Cabitto is even more rare, and we know all the Cabittos in the United States. Looking at the numbers, I think it's counting adults ages 18 and older. I was surprised and happy to see that my blog you're reading right now is listed on the Sanetra surname! </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><b><span style="line-height: 120%; text-transform: uppercase;"></span></b></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><b><span style="line-height: 120%; text-transform: uppercase;"><br /></span></b></span></span></span>http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2015/03/polish-surnames-websites-to-help.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-5186738692824582892Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:42:00 +00002015-01-25T14:42:20.684-05:00Ancestry.comchurchesgraduationinterviewschoolswebsiteyearbooksOld year book pictures? Have you seen your grandparents' year book?How long have year books been around? Where can you find old year books? Do you have a year book? Have you seen your parents and grandparents year books?<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-amjGeGLP4Q4/VMU8UfsTXYI/AAAAAAAATj4/NV0_eUZyj0U/s1600/1935-Dortch%2C%2BFern%26%2BOlive-year%2Bbook%2Bpicture-Jasper%27s%2Bdaughters.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-amjGeGLP4Q4/VMU8UfsTXYI/AAAAAAAATj4/NV0_eUZyj0U/s1600/1935-Dortch%2C%2BFern%26%2BOlive-year%2Bbook%2Bpicture-Jasper's%2Bdaughters.jpg" height="320" width="239" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fern &amp; Olive Dortch yearbook picture</td></tr></tbody></table>I've been thinking about teenagers and graduation type things in my personal life. I was telling my kids the other day the story about when I graduated from high school. Our school was on a hill, facing the ocean. We all usually wore sunglasses because the California sun was so bright. A few students asked the principal if we could keep our sunglasses on during the ceremony, because it was so bright, facing the ocean. It had never been done before, (wearing sunglasses during the whole graduation ceremony), but the principal agreed and he and the vice principal wore sunglasses too, to show their support.<br /><br />A friend copied a picture of Fern and Olive Dortch's year book page for me. (click icon to view full page) They were born and raised in Kankakee, IL. Their father Jasper Dortch was born in Mecklenburg, VA.<br /><br />On Ancestry.com, I see that there are schools and churches grouped together under yearbooks. A lot of churches publish centennial events that are listed as year books. There are at least 262 listed under schools and churches on Ancestry.com. One is a Presbyterian church in New Jersey in 1894. Some yearbook listings are outside the USA. Sometimes the churches taught schools and had a year book. Here's a site I found interesting with many USA year books, information, and old pictures. You can browse by state:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.old-yearbooks.com/">http://www.old-yearbooks.com/</a> <br /><br />I have always thought my grandpa Sanetra was cool. But when I show other people (including family) his picture now and then pictures of him as a&nbsp; cool football player, his prom picture, his motorcycle, and that he had acne as a teenager too, then he becomes more real, and you want to learn more about that person. Do you know if your grandparents played sports, liked science, played chess, played a musical instrument or liked to dance? If you haven't seen their year book or asked them if they had one, give them a call. Or ask your parents about it. What was their graduation day like? How much school did they complete? <i>(Previous rural farming generations often did not complete high school, but rather 5th or 8th grade completion was considered sufficient).</i> Have you told your children what your graduation day was like? <br /><br />http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2015/01/old-year-book-pictures-have-you-seen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-3926621581218280246Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:17:00 +00002014-12-15T12:17:57.421-05:00databaseholocaustJewishNew Holocaust Survivors databaseKurt Mathia is an expert Jewish genealogy researcher working with familysearch.org. I wanted to share the latest message he sent me, thinking this would be of interest to many researchers, and people just trying to learn more about their family post WWII. Here's the message:<br /><br />13 Dec 2014:<br />"<span class="yj-message-list-item--body-message yj-message" data-qaid="message-text" dir="ltr" lang="en">We visited at Yad Vashem last week. They will be adding a Holocaust Survivors database to the existing Shoah database and will want pages of testimony submitted. By the way, they need many more pages of testimony for the Shoah database. Only about 3,000,000 have been submitted according to the archivist we spoke to."</span><br /><br /><span class="yj-message-list-item--body-message yj-message" data-qaid="message-text" dir="ltr" lang="en">My reply back: 13 Dec 2014</span><br /><span class="yj-message-list-item--body-message yj-message" data-qaid="message-text" dir="ltr" lang="en"><span class="yj-message-list-item--body-message yj-message" data-qaid="message-text" dir="ltr" lang="en">That is wonderful! And truly impressive. This will be a great resource to the many Polish Catholic researchers in addition to Jewish genealogists, as many Polish Catholics were also in camps. Thanks for the info.</span> </span>http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2014/12/new-holocaust-survivors-database.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-3909248022927564009Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:10:00 +00002014-11-24T16:10:53.962-05:00cemeteryorganizationpicturesrecordsorganizing my digital genealogy and cemetery pictures<b><span style="color: #990000;"><i>This is a copy of the post I did today for my Virginia blog. I wish I had lots of Polish family cemetery pictures! Virginia pictures are easier for me because I live in Virginia. I have been frequently asked&nbsp; to explain my organizing and why. So I thought I'd do this post here too. All of it can apply to this blog too, as far as organizing digital records, except I won't have cemetery slide shows to post on this blog</i></span>.</b>&nbsp; <br />_______________________________________________________<br />I've taken a lot of pictures! I've also scanned many files. I've studied how professional archivists and professional photographers organized their pictures, with 10,000+ files. One problem I found, was that the typical way of storing (and default way of my computer) is lots of folders by date. But sometimes folders get stuck inside of other folders. When I first made the goal of going as folder free as possible, I found I had over 2,000 duplicate files! If one file was stored in say Jun 2009 and the same file stored in Nov 2011, the file could be duplicated and stored twice. I've been asked by a lot of people how I organize my files. I hope this post may help.<br /><br />All the effective organization systems I read about, stored files by date, without folders. I had previously stored them by surname, in surname folders. Sort of a digital way of the old paper filing system. But of course surnames can overlap, causing duplicates. I found that using Windows 7, I could easily search files, so all my files could be stored in one large folder and I could still easily find a file in seconds. I started relabeling my files, and immediately started seeing some interesting things. I love seeing things by date! I see more relationships and patterns. All the 1860's files look pretty similar, just like 1980's pictures will have a similar look to them. By seeing them in order, I could for example, point out to my grandpa, "this picture was taken when you were 15, do you remember it?" And yes, he did remember, it had just been awhile since he'd seen those people. It wasn't one of his personal pictures, but he remembered it because he could associate it with his age then. <br /><br />I currently have only 5 genealogy folders. (I used to have about 200 folders.) My current folders:<br />1) My mother's files<br />2) My father's files<br />3) My father in law's files (I'm now caretaker of those records)<br />4) General gen files, info that can apply to all the files, like info about record collections, notes I took at meetings etc.<br />5) Me &amp; my husband - scans of: certificates, pictures, cards etc for the family we started, more current stuff<br /><br />I have one other folder on my desktop, labeled "Gen scans". That's my not completely processed working file. Until I can get it ready to be archived into my "Gen files" folder into 1 of the 5 folders sub-folders. "Gen scans" where I put stuff when I borrow a collection for a week to scan. Where I still need to relabel pictures, and lastly, tombstone pictures. As I load new files into "Gen files", from that working folder of "Gen scans", I back the files up on cloud, and an external hard drive.<br /><br />I finally figured out what I wanted to do with my tombstone pictures dilemma. I had each cemetery in a folder, with county and date labeled. Pictures in the order I took them. I walked in rows and was careful to note family groups. So the order I took pictures was important because it showed family relationships. These are very small rural Virginia cemeteries on old farms, or tiny churches. But I also wanted to have these files be searcheable by surname and the date. In this case, not date taken, but the death date on the tombstone, (which would not hold the order of pictures taken). My recent solution to my challenge, to do both things I wanted (date and order taken): create a slide show in the order pictures were taken. In that slide show, I have started to write the place, and date pictures were taken, which the folder name had the job of doing previously. Then, after the slide show is complete, I label the cemetery pictures just like all the other files, by the date on the record and a surname, or the whole name. If say the file is muster roll, I'd list it as "1863-07-David Dunn-muster roll-death". The year, then month, then day, holds all the records in chronological order. I have several thousand files but If I type in "David Dunn", only a couple files show up, all relevant. Bonus, the search result is only a few seconds! If I only have a year, I type just the year. If my grandma says "I know that picture was between 1940 and 1946, but that's the best I can do for a date" then I label the picture "1940s-Stowe AZ" (approximate date, surname and place).<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ztdn2PZdUgA/VHOc4A9fdGI/AAAAAAAAQvA/MePg4RUwiRw/s1600/ex%2Bfile%2Bnames-2.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ztdn2PZdUgA/VHOc4A9fdGI/AAAAAAAAQvA/MePg4RUwiRw/s1600/ex%2Bfile%2Bnames-2.JPG" height="226" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Example of my filing system</td></tr></tbody></table>I will start posting the cemetery files here in blog posts, then if you look on the "pages" part, far right, you'll see the "cemetery slide shows" page. <br /><br />PS. My family pictures are stored the same way. I have just one folder, in "my pictures" labeled "pictures archives." They are backed up on external hard drive and cloud. As my camera and computer by default add in new folders, I routinely go through them, re-label and then archive. Then delete those new folders. Just one folder with several thousand pictures (I have the archive of all the family wedding pictures etc) and its all easily searchable. http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2014/11/organizing-my-genealogy-and-cemetery.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-582522043206016545Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:09:00 +00002014-10-27T09:10:09.613-04:00digitizingIndianamigrationrecordsIndiana records digitizing, soon availableI saw this post on "Dear Myrtle" this week. (Oct 23rd)<br /><br />&nbsp;<a href="http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/10/23/indiana-partners-ancestrycom-digitize-records/17778547/">http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/10/23/indiana-partners-ancestrycom-digitize-records/17778547/</a><br /><br />Here's the first paragraph on that page:&nbsp; "The Indiana Commission on Public Records has approved a contract with Ancestry.com to digitize more than 13 million birth certificates, death certificates, and marriage records, Gov. Mike Pence announced Thursday."<br /><br />A large number of people started moving from Chicago (About WWII time period) to Indiana, to places like Gary, and LaPorte Indiana. The family of Jozef Sanetra and Rozalia Mrozek moved from Chicago to LaPorte, Indiana. Kazimierz Bazarnik and his wife Matilda Malinowski lived in Chicago, married in Gary, got their citizenship in Chicago then later moved to Gary, Indiana, I believe spending the rest of their lives there. Kazimeirz was the nephew of Alfreda Mazurkiewicz who was the second marriage of Adam Sanetra. Alfreda, Kazimierz and his mother Anna immigrated together. . <br /><br />This is great news for those looking to do more research about their ancestors!<br /><br />http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2014/10/indiana-records-digitizing-soon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-2615377030320862112Thu, 02 Oct 2014 14:52:00 +00002014-10-02T10:53:40.287-04:00holocaustrecordsWWIIInquiries to the Red Cross, after WWIII discovered an amazing collection of records at the Holocaust museum. Joseph Sanetra wrote to the Red Cross to find our family, and they found us in about 1961. Thousands of people wrote letters like his stating when they last saw their family member, info that could help identify a relative (like a birth date) and sometimes sent in a picture.<br /><br />I was told that just after the war, the Red Cross gave the letter inquiry info to the Army, and the US Army and British Army did the searching. Stalin made mail inquiries, (such as this) stop in areas he controlled, which affected mail inquiries in other areas as well. Then after his death in 1953, mail inquiries searching for family started getting easier.<br /><br />I was told the inquiries late 1950's and in 1960's, those records would be held by the Polish Red Cross. (Since the inquiries I'm looking for are Polish). The searches just after the war, investigated by British and US Army are in a database now. And the Holocaust Museum has access to this database. They looked up a few names for me during my visit, and I took home a copy of one case. http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2014/10/inquiries-to-red-cross-after-wwii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-4419472318806685358Thu, 14 Aug 2014 23:01:00 +00002014-08-14T19:01:58.293-04:00Catholic ChurchChicagoholocaustJewishThe Holocaust museum is much more than exhibitsSeveral years now, I've questioned whether a few relatives of mine were Jewish or Catholic. I have a picture of two of them. When I show their name, or picture, or say where they lived,&nbsp; whether I'm talking to currently practicing Jews or Catholics, (senior citizen age), they tell me, "oh most definitely Jewish!". But when I ask, "how do you know? Can you explain it to me?" I'm told, with a shrug of the shoulders,"You just know these things".<br /><br />I talked with a Catholic priest who worked in old Catholic archives. He told me it's true that in the 1920's to 1940's the time period I was looking at, a lot of Jewish women did marry Catholic men. And when they moved to this country it was a new start, you didn't question what the husband said. So there are Jewish women buried in Catholic cemeteries in Chicago. The priest recommended I try visiting the Holocaust museum because they could help with people like mine who I believe hid behind Catholic marriages. It's more than just information about the holocaust in the museum. I spoke with another person recently who said something similar about help for my questions. The people I'm looking for are not showing up in Catholic records when the rest of the family does, and I really don't know about Jewish records, although so far I have not had luck with the Jewish genealogy online site. The museum can help me learn where to start. <br /><br />This week, I called the holocaust museum. I told the guy that I didn't even know if my family was Jewish or not, but I was told by a few people they were. Could someone help me with that? To know if they are Jewish? I also told him part of my family was there during the invasion, could they help with things like that? He assured me they could help with all these things. I thought the museum/research part was just for if you already knew you were Jewish or to understand what happened to the Jews. And then of course the purpose of learning history, so it doesn't repeat. But now I realize the museum can even help people like me trying to figure out if their family was Jewish, and just overall understanding things better. The research part is open Mon-Fri. I have so many questions to ask, I can hardly wait for my visit!! <br />Here is a link to the website to learn more about it: <a href="http://www.ushmm.org/">http://www.ushmm.org/</a>http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-holocaust-museum-is-much-more-than.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-8354297250471373940Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:45:00 +00002014-07-29T17:45:24.758-04:00organizationPaul SanetraVirginiaOrganizing all my years of genealogy notes with Evernote&nbsp;<span style="color: #990000;"><i>Here is a post I did on my Virginia blog. This is all names and info relevant to my Virginia families, but the concepts can apply to any record keeping or researching ideas. I've been trying to organize all my stacks of notes. I'm working on getting things together to go look for long forgotten cemeteries and interviewing "old timers" who did farming the old fashioned way. About another month I should have all my Virginia emails in archive then I will work on my Polish emails, which are not as many and I started on much later with my Polish research, when I inherited copies of the records and information of Paul Sanetra Sr from his son Richard. The same concepts, just a new notebook. I think seeing connections will be extremely helpful for my Polish families. Already I have seen where the map and city directories have helped me, when I could not find records. </i></span><br />____________________________________________________________________<br />I wanted to take a little break from my usual posts to explain something I've been trying, in case it may be of interest or help to any of you. I've spent the last month trying to organize my genealogy stuff better. I developed a system that has worked amazingly well for me, with huge potential. A friend told me he used Evernote for genealogy. I wasn't sure how, and didn't have a chance to ask him for a long time. I set up an account, didn't get it right away, and I let it go for about a year. Then I read something about someone organizing all their daily tasks, blog posts, etc in Evernote, so I became curious again. I went to Evernote's website and watched the intro videos. Then I went to Google and typed "Evernote" and saw over 100 videos listed, of people showing how they used Evernote. I watched the top viewed ones, then got an idea of how I could use it for genealogy. I have the free version: windows, and droid for my phone. <br /><br />I had hundreds of emails I saved over about 12 years, referencing court cases, records, notes on searching for cemeteries, ...lots of important things I didn't want to loose. But then finding where the info was, wasn't so easy. Which email? Which file was it stored in? Windows 7 searches occasionally found the files, Gmail much better. I started testing out tags in other programs and instantly loved tags/filters. So when I saw tags in Evernote I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them! Another thought: I had a plat, with the name JR Cole. At first I didn't really think I didn't needed to remember the name, because it wasn't a blood line. But after awhile, I started to see his name as a neighbor on other plats, as a witness on other records, but then I couldn't remember where. My lesson was learned. I found he was a close neighbor and his family married into mine lot. So every surname in my Mecklenburg/Brunswick emails gets a tag.<br /><br />I've been doing this for about a month now. I've created about 10 household notes in a household notebook on cooking, sewing and gardening. The rest is working on this system I created in genealogy notebooks. I took about 250 email messages and created 170 notes in 18 notesbooks. Most of those digital notebooks are main surname lines like Dortch, Poythress, Jones, Taylor. Then I have one for cemetery searching, and interviews. I currently have over 250 tags. I take an old email message and copy/paste it into a note on Evernote. Then I tag all the things I want to remember in that new note. Here's some specific examples of what I do.<br /><br />Example, my friend and relative Hobson Scott Wright sent me a Gray family picture we were trying to identify people in those pictures. The picture attached and email text goes in a note. It is in the notebook labeled "Gray". My tags are "Hobson Wright", "Gray", "VA-Danville", "identifying picture", "98th Regt group". Then notes about who we emailed and asked about the picture will go on that note. Right now that info is stored in a lot of places. It will be nice to have it all in one place, connected. <br /><br />Another example: I went to Mecklenburg and visited the Rideout cemetery off Nellie Jones Rd. I visited it with 4 people. Those 4 people each have tags, also "cemetery searching", "98th Regt group", and "Ridout" are tagged.<br /><br />Another example: someone emailed me a chancery case. Hobson Scott Wright and the 4 people who went to the Rideout cemetery with me commented on the case. There were 6 names in the case and 3 different surnames as witnesses, not in the case. That note has 15 tags: Hobson, the 4 names who also went to Rideout cemetery, the 6 surnames in the case, the 3 surnames as witness, and the word "chancery". So from these 3 examples you can see Hobson Scott Wright would already have 3 tags. When I click on "Pearson" or "Thomas" or "Jones" or "Purdy" or "Ireland-Armagh" tags, you would also see his name showing up, as one of the other tags on those notes.<br /><br />Other types of tags I created: Just things I wanted to remember: If they went to Rehoboth church, or Kingswood, or Olive branch, or Sardis. If they died in military conflict, if they were in the military, then subcategories of which war, if a note has got a person's mailing address, if it's got an interview inclosed, if there's GPS coordinates in the note, etc.<br /><br />I'm already seeing so many more patterns and connections! And as I type in notes, underneath my note, it shows other notes I have with similar subjects. As I search in Google, on the right, there's a box that shows similar Evernote notes I have on the subjects I'm searching. Evernote reads PDF's, does voice to text, ...so many amazing things! Evernote really can help you remember everything, help make your info organized, in your style, extremely accessible, very smart searching! I'm a huge fan now, if you can't tell.<br /><br />PS. I recently showed my friend my system. He said had never thought of the tags. He just used notes to type up where he had searched, more like writing in a journal. But after seeing how I used the tags and OCR searching power, he thought that would help him and others, so I thought I'd share.&nbsp; <br />For more information here is Evernote's site, the page with intro videos: <a href="http://evernote.com/video/">http://evernote.com/video/</a><br /><br /><br />http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2014/07/organizing-all-my-years-of-genealogy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-3995135463670238686Mon, 19 May 2014 16:50:00 +00002014-08-15T23:43:12.020-04:00historyinterviewstoriesvideoStories video clip<span style="color: #990000;"><i>Note: Update 15 Aug 2014. I moved this video to the section "videos" under "pages" section, upper left, above the church picture.</i></span><br /><br />I just added a little video clip into my blog. It was created for the 2014 Rootstech Conference. I couldn't get it into a post, so I put it just above the welcome message. I really liked this video, because to me, this is what family history is all about. It shows what I feel, that everyone has a story. I read recently that genealogy is names and dates, family history is the stories and pictures. So check out the little video clip, about two minutes. How many of those things do you think your family did? If you don't know, who can you ask to understand better?<br /><br />I like to encourage people to upload stories and pictures to their online trees, for the benefit of other family members. Family they know, and relatives they haven't met yet. I've been working at my tree on Ancestry.com and familysearch for about 10 years. I have a lot of pictures and stories I'm trying to share with my family just a little at a time. It takes too long to thing about digitizing an entire bookshelf. But an hour each Sunday is manageable and very doable. Enjoy the video. I wish you the best at discovering your family stories!http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2014/05/stories-video-clip.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-8167468585073152201Sun, 20 Apr 2014 18:15:00 +00002014-04-20T20:20:02.513-04:00Adam SanetrabaptismCatholic ChurchChicagomarriage recordreligionEaster Sunday and thinking about the church your ancestors attendedToday is Easter Sunday. A special Sunday when many people of the Christian faiths around the world attend church. So I thought I'd like to mention thinking about the importance of religion and family history.<br /><br />What ceremonies or religious things were important to your ancestors? Most likely, because it was important, it was recorded. Either by the church, or in a family Bible or diary. Does that record still exist? If so, it would probably be a great help to you. Ask your relatives. Most religious records list parents names and/or a spouse. Religious records can really help prove the links in our tree a little better. Various rites in religions such as: Sacraments, Holy Communion, Marriage, the various terms for naming a baby. <br /><br />Different religions and ethnicities have ways of doing things. Patterns. Do you know the pattern for your family? For the religion and ethnicity of your ancestors? I've spoken with several historians that work with Catholic archives in Chicago and Minneapolis. The typical pattern for a Polish Catholic family about 1900-1920 was to settle near the Great Lakes, (similar land and weather to their old home), settle in a Polish neighborhood, pick a Catholic church, then stick with it. Even if that family moved from Chicago to Gary, Indiana,.... if there was a wedding, tradition and the family pattern would say they go back to the church the bride was baptized in. Even if it is a 3-4 hour drive, the whole wedding party would drive that distance. It keeps all the records in one church. Like in Europe. I hear about my husband's Italians, that if you know the Catholic church (which we do), then you can follow the records back for hundreds of years. <br /><br />One of the historians in Chicago called me, wanting to discuss my letter and to tell me exactly how much Adam Sanetra broke typical patterns. She was curious and asked if I knew why. I told her I had no idea, until she explained all this to me. We didn't even know they spoke German. Adam Sanetra, a Polish Catholic, moved to a German speaking town, his first two children were baptized in a church that only did German mass until that had to change with WWI. Then each child was baptized in a different church. Two of which I still haven't seen, and Jozef was baptized in an Irish church with mass in Gaelic. All of the churches were just a few miles apart too. <br /><br />Religion can affect where you are buried. In rural America, people were often buried on their family farms. Catholic historians have explained to me there's some pretty specific things about their burial. A Catholic priest-historian explained to me that there are Jewish women buried in their cemeteries during WWII time. If the husband claimed his wife was Catholic for her safety, then, things just happened. Other times, the church allowed them to have the ceremony at the church with family but they were buried somewhere else.&nbsp; There were many mixed religion marriages during WWII.&nbsp; Also, many religions used to be very against cremation, but are no longer against it today. <br /><br />The majority of the marriage records for my ancestors, before WWII, were performed at a church, (of many different denominations.) Unless there were conflicts with different religions, then they may have chosen justice of the peace. There are two main type of marriage records. A ledger: a book listing one after the other who was married, in the courthouse. And a certificate. I was married at a church, and there is a certificate for the church, and it is also recorded on the ledger at the courthouse. The same is true for relatives I have found a hundred years ago. Usually the pastor or priest's name and sometimes the name of the church are also on the certificate. Often the same records you have today for yourself, also existed 100 years ago.(click on images to view full screen)<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A0OTwmB_4UU/U1QEa8m9X5I/AAAAAAAAN0o/eu3tWUOuSKc/s1600/1910-07-Janik,+Karl+&amp;+Julia-Mar.+cert.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A0OTwmB_4UU/U1QEa8m9X5I/AAAAAAAAN0o/eu3tWUOuSKc/s1600/1910-07-Janik,+Karl+&amp;+Julia-Mar.+cert.jpg" height="173" width="200" /></a></div>Here is Karol Janik, marrying Julia. Adam Sanetra said on Ellis Island this was his brother in law. Not sure how yet. This says Holy Trinity Church, which is a Catholic church in Chicago. So there should also be a courthouse record too, from the ledger books.Example of one from Virginia:<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JBKQnEKqJyY/U1RjuAzrNrI/AAAAAAAAN10/4POZeA8Gb-g/s1600/Dortch,+Charles+-Rosa+Perkinson-marriage+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JBKQnEKqJyY/U1RjuAzrNrI/AAAAAAAAN10/4POZeA8Gb-g/s1600/Dortch,+Charles+-Rosa+Perkinson-marriage+1.jpg" height="115" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ledger marriage books at courthouses</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v-4FEcbHaG8/U1RjuLpsM4I/AAAAAAAAN1w/jPJ9PWD1x8k/s1600/Dortch,+Charles+-Rosa+Perkinson-marriage+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v-4FEcbHaG8/U1RjuLpsM4I/AAAAAAAAN1w/jPJ9PWD1x8k/s1600/Dortch,+Charles+-Rosa+Perkinson-marriage+2.jpg" height="173" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">right half of marriage ledger</td></tr></tbody></table><br />&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Also for fun wanted to add in two Easter cards that Paul Sanetra (son of Adam) got from his nephew Adam (grandson of Adam) about the early 1980's<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dBSzVHpqpOU/U1QFP3QEPiI/AAAAAAAAN0w/Xeyz1GI2HjE/s1600/2014-02-880.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dBSzVHpqpOU/U1QFP3QEPiI/AAAAAAAAN0w/Xeyz1GI2HjE/s1600/2014-02-880.jpg" height="135" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g-nbVOwHTYI/U1QFRFB-QyI/AAAAAAAAN04/uIuHLBb3VoI/s1600/2014-02-881.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g-nbVOwHTYI/U1QFRFB-QyI/AAAAAAAAN04/uIuHLBb3VoI/s1600/2014-02-881.jpg" height="200" width="144" /></a></div>. http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2014/04/easter-sunday-and-thinking-about-church.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-7592314591628255310Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:03:00 +00002014-03-31T23:16:32.089-04:001918Bennie SanetraBronislawa SanetracemeteryChicago flu epidemicErvin SanetraJozef SanetraWandzelRosalie Wandzel and the flu epidemic 1918-some Pandemic notes<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AOqNctbZ4oM/UziVNy84Q3I/AAAAAAAANxE/k0_wEsE3ojs/s1600/1918-10-Wandzel,+Rosalie+Sanetra-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AOqNctbZ4oM/UziVNy84Q3I/AAAAAAAANxE/k0_wEsE3ojs/s1600/1918-10-Wandzel,+Rosalie+Sanetra-2.jpg" height="190" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosalie Wandzel Sanetra death certificate</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #990000;"><i>31 Mar 2014-correction to this post. I made a mistake and just double checked with my grandparents. Rosalie did not have a funeral, her children were not with her. They were kept away from her to not catch the flu. And then she was just buried without a funeral.&nbsp; None of the other children or their father Adam got the flu. Paul thought his mother was buried in a Catholic cemetery because they went to a Catholic orphanage and they were baptized Catholic.</i></span><br /><br />Rosalie Wandzel died in the big flu pandemic of 1918. As you can see from this certificate, she died in St. Elizabeth's hospital. She was buried in the Bohemian Cemetery, several miles north and rather out of the way from where the family ever lived with their many addresses. Interesting thing was, Paul was so sure his mother's burial was in a Catholic cemetery, and he spent the rest of his life looking in all the Catholic cemeteries in Chicago for his mother's burial place. He would have loved to have given her a tombstone. (Now it is too late for the cemetery.) Rosalie was buried in the Bohemian cemetery which was for many nationalities/ethnicities: German, Polish, Jewish, ...all were welcome. A Catholic priest told me this was often done back then when people had no money. Rosalie was buried in a paupers/term grave (also common then), and they had 7-10 years to pay. When paid in full, she'd be moved to a family plot. But by then, Adam had died, was back in Poland, the children were half in the United States and half in Poland, and the children didn't know. So she, along with many others, are still in paupers graves, and no one knows who's in which plot, so you can't put a tombstone up. <br /><br />The hospital Rosalie went to still exists. Here is a link to a history page about hospitals in Chicago, especially Jewish and Catholic hospitals. The one Rosalie died in was Catholic. St. Elizabeth's was founded in 1887.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/602.html">http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/602.html</a> Here is the current address today to look up on Google maps: <br />1431 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622<br /><br />I was told by lots of people the reason we couldn't find Rosalie's death certificate was because so many people died, that death records just weren't kept. People were quarantined so they couldn't keep records. I now know, that it was much more orderly than I was told. It was a very scary time, and the numbers are quite awful! But reporting might just be delayed a few days or so. The way I found Rosalie's death certificate was a burial permit, and her name was spelled wrong.<br /><br />I have recently read 3 interesting historical fiction books. I learned from them that this flu had some unique things. People had purple spots (not like measles, but actual spots), and turned ashen gray right before they died. I'm looking for some good proof and explanations for these things.&nbsp; I've found some really interesting sites that I'll blog about next week. About the statistics for Chicago, the country etc. I also learned things like that the military was hit very hard, as well as American Indians.<br /><br />To close today's post, I found this article, the day Rosalie Wandzel Sanetra died, a great grandmother of mine. It was in the Chicago Tribune, about the flu epidemic, statistics that week, etc. It was the entire right column, so I split it to make it more visible. Here is a link to the actual page, if you have fold3 accessibility: <a href="http://www.fold3.com/image/25/138607431/" target="_blank">http://www.fold3.com/image/25/138607431/&nbsp;</a><br />(Click images to view full screen)<br />Source: Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct 1918, pg 1.&nbsp; <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qg6IcqgLDVU/UziyFwqz-KI/AAAAAAAANxs/zYzg221U_NM/s1600/flu+part+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qg6IcqgLDVU/UziyFwqz-KI/AAAAAAAANxs/zYzg221U_NM/s1600/flu+part+1.jpg" height="200" width="43" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">flu part 1</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q8xhvIy98jA/UziyJvaF9gI/AAAAAAAANx0/sUdcTiFk9D8/s1600/flu-part+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q8xhvIy98jA/UziyJvaF9gI/AAAAAAAANx0/sUdcTiFk9D8/s1600/flu-part+2.jpg" height="200" width="44" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">flu part 2</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2014/03/rosalie-wandzel-and-flu-epidemic-1918.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-3609666337177091328Mon, 10 Mar 2014 03:20:00 +00002014-03-09T23:23:42.132-04:00Catholic ChurchimmigrationJewishMarylandreligious freedomFirst Catholic Church in America and religious freedomI saw a familysearch indexing project of interest to me. I wanted to post about it on my blog for others with Polish Catholic relatives who settled in Chicago. It's called :<span style="color: red;"><i> Illinois Chicago Catholic Church records from 1833-1910</i></span>. The project is 39% complete. Here is direct infomation about that project specifically: <a href="https://familysearch.org/indexing/projects/USIllinChicagoCChurcRecor18331910PartA">https://familysearch.org/indexing/projects/USIllinChicagoCChurcRecor18331910PartA</a><br /><br />This weekend, I went to Old Saint Mary's City, Maryland. This was the Capital before Annapolis, and the 4th United States colony settlement. For those of you who don't know, Maryland was created as a colony to be a haven for the Catholics. But even though it was a haven, it was still under British rule, which wasn't very tolerant of religion back then. Catholics could not own land and I've read they were even sometimes taxed higher than Protestants. I saw the oldest Catholic church in America. The very first built, was wooden, and burned down during political unrest. The second was built on the same site, this church, in 1667. The amazing thing was, during political unrest, they were ordered to take down the church and not practice Catholicism, because Church of England/Episcopalian was the official religion then. The church was buried. This was before the separation of church and state, which started with the United States new government. Archeological digs and a lot of work happened to restore the church.&nbsp; I saw pictures of the church being unearthed and rebuilt about 300 years later. By the time Catholics and Jews immigrated in large numbers about the year 1900, religious freedom was much better established in the United States. (And England as well.) I think this particular Catholic church has a fascinating history! Three lead coffins were discovered and studied! Part of the founding Calvert family. I am thankful for so many founding fathers (men and women) who paved the way for religious freedom in our country today. And for military today that help keep our freedoms. Hope you enjoy these pictures. Check out the church's history here. It shows step by step pictures of reconstruction: <a href="https://www.stmaryscity.org/research/archaeology/the-chapel-log/">https://www.stmaryscity.org/research/archaeology/the-chapel-log/</a><br />You can also read more about the city on the web site. This city was Catholic. The other settlements near the same time like Jamestown and Plymouth were Protestant. <br /><br />Here's some of my pictures (click on pictures to view full screen): <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KxdjHennYis/Ux0lGiuADYI/AAAAAAAANqQ/qHadEncqY4c/s1600/_IMG1335.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KxdjHennYis/Ux0lGiuADYI/AAAAAAAANqQ/qHadEncqY4c/s1600/_IMG1335.JPG" height="200" width="131" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HNoyOjph6VQ/Ux0lGi4_0ZI/AAAAAAAANqc/UQlWcboVjKw/s1600/_IMG1334.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HNoyOjph6VQ/Ux0lGi4_0ZI/AAAAAAAANqc/UQlWcboVjKw/s1600/_IMG1334.JPG" height="200" width="131" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rf8VgurOuBk/Ux0lamUpalI/AAAAAAAANqk/abQRAl1jMVA/s1600/_IMG1325.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rf8VgurOuBk/Ux0lamUpalI/AAAAAAAANqk/abQRAl1jMVA/s1600/_IMG1325.JPG" height="131" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kIyZsk65UtE/Ux0lqXtvb0I/AAAAAAAANqo/WZE11QiURuA/s1600/_IMG1312.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kIyZsk65UtE/Ux0lqXtvb0I/AAAAAAAANqo/WZE11QiURuA/s1600/_IMG1312.JPG" height="131" width="200" /></a></div><br />http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2014/03/first-catholic-church-in-america-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-2082593654692085380Sun, 02 Mar 2014 02:14:00 +00002014-03-01T22:12:22.073-05:00Ancestry.comdigitizingfamilysearchFredericksburgLVAFairs, announcements and great new things coming soon with digitizing projects!<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Note: I live in Virginia, and my focus today was on Virginia records. This is a post I did on my Virginia blog. But I felt most the info would be relevant to this blog as well. I believe these partnerships will do amazing things and help make many records accessible. I love spending time in the Library of Virginia. They are so amazing about record preservation and accessibility. The staff is so knowledgeable, friendly and helpful.&nbsp; It was great to see the cooperation of various groups to learn about genealogy, and try to get some new ideas to try. Here is a recent email I got about Polish records, so it isn't all VA records. I look forward to much more like this, with cooperation:</i></span></b> <a href="https://familysearch.org/blog/en/familysearch-adds-352000-indexed-records-images-collections-czech-republic-hungary-poland-united-states/">https://familysearch.org/blog/en/familysearch-adds-352000-indexed-records-images-collections-czech-republic-hungary-poland-united-states/</a><br /><br /><br />I missed my goal last weekend of doing weekly posts. I was busy preparing for today's local family history fair, practicing my presentation, and a trip to Library of Virginia. Today was a wonderful day! Next time, I'll post on here ahead of time about it. It was a huge success, so another will be done next year. Enormous amounts of preparation went into this. The committee was amazing! I was happy to be a speaker, and enjoyed sitting in the lunch room with the guests from LVA, UVA and locals like me, with varying subject interests. The thought for the fair, was that not everyone could travel to Utah for the Rootstech conferences. This was to make similar types of info available locally. Here is the link to the page for the Fredericksburg, VA fair we had today: <a href="http://fredvafamilyhistoryday.com/">http://fredvafamilyhistoryday.com/</a><br /><br />Another thing that I have gotten emails and seen presentations about, is joint partnerships with familysearch and Ancestry.com. Whenever familysearch signs a contract, they say the index must always remain free. Indexers before familysearch, did the 1880 Census index and Ellis Island manifest. Those records are of course still free, years later, as the original agreement was made. The numbers of indexers and the rate projects are being digitized and accessible online is really mind boggling. But the familysearch team has bigger, higher goals than even I can fully comprehend. Check out this goal to digitize 70 billion records worldwide! Even with all the amazing volunteer work, at the rate projects are going now, it would take 250-300 years to index. With the new partnership of familysearch, heritage quest, Ancestry.com, Find my past,etc...all the collaborative effort, the records will be accessible in 25-30 years as opposed to 250-300 years. How amazing! Here is the infographic: <a href="https://familysearch.org/node/2520">https://familysearch.org/node/2520</a> Here is more detailed description, about the partnerships and picture: <a href="https://familysearch.org/node/2523">https://familysearch.org/node/2523</a><br /><br />I wanted to find some official statements, not emails and presentations I've seen. There were announcements in Sep 2013 and at Rootstech in Feb 2014. Here is a link to familysearch.org about the partnership in Sep, making 1 billion records available in 5 years: <a href="https://familysearch.org/blog/en/familysearch-ancestrycom-working-records-online/">https://familysearch.org/blog/en/familysearch-ancestrycom-working-records-online/</a><br />Here is the familysearch Feb info discussed at Rootstech: <a href="https://familysearch.org/blog/en/details-free-account-access-familysearch-partner-websites/">https://familysearch.org/blog/en/details-free-account-access-familysearch-partner-websites/</a><br />Here is the Sep announcement from Ancestry.com's page:<br /><a href="http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2013/09/05/ancestry-com-and-familysearch-to-make-a-billion-global-records-available-online/">http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2013/09/05/ancestry-com-and-familysearch-to-make-a-billion-global-records-available-online/</a><br />Eastman also wrote about this too, (back in Sept) on his blog. http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2014/03/fairs-announcements-and-great-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-176836671746040097Sun, 16 Feb 2014 03:03:00 +00002014-02-15T22:03:06.132-05:00Bronislawa Sanetra, our missing relative, born 1901<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vtRHV-pZL5Y/UwAkq2kdpJI/AAAAAAAANLo/rGKROX5I4Ms/s1600/1901-06-Sanetra%252C+Bronislawa-birth+cert..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vtRHV-pZL5Y/UwAkq2kdpJI/AAAAAAAANLo/rGKROX5I4Ms/s1600/1901-06-Sanetra%252C+Bronislawa-birth+cert..jpg" height="320" width="228" /></a></div>We have only two records for Bronislawa. This is her birth record in Poland. The other record is her immigration to the United States 19 Feb 1911. She and Marianna Klosak Wojtas were held for special inquiry. I wrote to numerous places trying to obtain information about that, since that is the last record we have for her. Many people told me no such record existed. I wrote to several places I was told the record would be, even paying the fees, doing everything exactly the way the archivists told me and was sent back my letter being told things like no A file exists, when I asked specifically for the special inquiry report.<br />This page for special inquiry was at the end of the ship manifest. The interesting thing, is that I asked lots of historians, and no one I asked could tell me what "section 11" was, that Marianna was being held for. Apparently she broke some law.<br />I read about special inquiry on the Jewish Gen webpage. And that there were transcripts. I kept trying to tell people these records existed but kept running into dead ends. So far, I have not been able to get a special inquiry report for Bronislawa and Marianna, but hope to one day. See this interesting article in Jewish Gen website: <a href="http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/manifests/bsi/">http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/manifests/bsi/</a><br /><br />And what I really want, a copy of a transcript for what happened to Bronislawa. Because she never reached her father. So this would be the last piece of information available for her. Transcript example, the records do exist, contrary to what some people tried to dismiss when I asked about this collection : <a href="http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/manifests/bsi/hearing1.html">http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/manifests/bsi/hearing1.html</a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZxnaXCzAmjE/UwAm_-e4PUI/AAAAAAAANL4/m1GpaTmwzic/s1600/2012-09-Bronislawa+Sanetra+&amp;+Marianna+Wojtas+record+request-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZxnaXCzAmjE/UwAm_-e4PUI/AAAAAAAANL4/m1GpaTmwzic/s1600/2012-09-Bronislawa+Sanetra+&amp;+Marianna+Wojtas+record+request-2.jpg" height="246" width="320" /></a></div><br />http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2014/02/bronislawa-sanetra-our-missing-relative.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-8976544070841837507Sun, 09 Feb 2014 04:01:00 +00002014-02-08T23:01:13.208-05:00CzarneckiDemczyszynFlorkoKremkoskiKubasLachNasluchaczPickerReedSanetraGuestbook updated 8 Feb 2014I went through &amp; tried to reply to all the missed guestbook messages. Also sent emails to those messages. I found a few spam things slipped through the filters so got those out too. Here's the names updated (the index in the "Pages" part was updated. Written here so I can tag them: Nasluchacz, Kremkoski, Lach, Demczyszyn, Florko, Picker, Sanetra, Czarnecki, Reed, Kubas.&nbsp; http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2014/02/guestbook-updated-8-feb-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-8671855065240532303Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:50:00 +00002014-02-06T09:50:38.483-05:00blog updatesVirginiaquick blog update-future postingsThis has been an extra tough year with health. I feel like I've gotten behind on everything. I keep two blogs, this one and one on Mecklenburg, VA genealogy. Both have completely different ways I do things. My Virginia blog emphasizes rural challenges, Virginia records, pictures and stories. I live in VA so I'm starting to post pictures of things I take, relevant to family history. Both blogs are important to me and I love them. Regretfully, I got a year and a half behind on emails and messages. I've spent most of the last two weeks replying back to all the emails and messages and should be done, all caught up with email this weekend. Next, I will be looking at the guestbook and replying there too. I've been scanning a lot too and will be getting things ready to share on both blogs. I now have a set time of day to work on my blogs, with both blogs posting each Sunday. I am truly sorry if you have sent me messages and didn't hear back right away. I'm working hard to make sure that doesn't happen again. I saved every message, so if you have tried to reach me and haven't heard back from me by Sunday, then I didn't get your message. Please re-send. http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2014/02/quick-blog-update-future-postings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-8719661021189553220Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:47:00 +00002013-09-23T15:13:06.153-04:00Adam Sanetramappurpose of blogNew map added about Adam Sanetra, his 2 wives and children. I just added a map to this blog, done with the new Google maps. I could only do 3 layers, otherwise I would have tried one layer per child. So make sure when you are viewing, that all 3 boxes are clicked to view all the layers. I had all of this info in a very detailed timeline. I also had the other map with just the pins. Following the lines of where they go helps. I could see addresses matching schools this time. There was one address I couldn't find to exist anymore. As you can see, it's a lot of addresses for Adam Sanetra for 19 years, from 1904, until 1923 when he returns back to the USA. I did add in notes about each line and place. This was my first time using these new maps. I really like it and can see lots of other possibilities. If you look on the top left corner of my blog, there's a section called "pages". That's where I store pictures, and other things. Just above "search this blog" is the map. Click on those words to view the map. I made it public, so everyone can see it. Then you can click on the word "home", top left corner of blog under picture heading, to return to posts. This map definitely visually shows they moved around a lot, to pretty far places too.Today when posting this, there was a total of 87 entries on the map. (for all 3 layers)http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2013/09/new-map-added-about-adam-sanetra-his-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-5636840849067654506Sun, 22 Sep 2013 12:38:00 +00002013-09-22T08:39:53.115-04:00Googlemapspurpose of blogZywiecnew tech stuff for this Sanetra - Żywiec-Zabłocie blogI've been learning new tech stuff for this blog. This is an old blogger format from several years ago, from the earliest blogger days. I'm finding out it doesn't always show up right on some computer screens, systems or browsers. My Chicago map wasn't showing up right, so I temporarily had to disable that. At the time I created this blog there were no 3 column blogs, so I read a bunch of blogger help pages and changed the html coding to create a 3 column blog. I now realize the technology changes are giving me limitations and glitches so I will start transitioning to a new template so the format is universal on everyone's computer.<br /><br />Also, I learned how to do a bunch of stuff on the new Google maps, that I have been tracking on paper in a journal. So under blogger pages, I plan to have a maps section. I plan to show many different things. Color coded, layered, etc. I have two composition notebooks almost full, most of which is related to or can be charted by maps. So I will make it visual and available for others to see. I just didn't know how to do it technologically, until I took a seminar and then some one gave me one on one help to show me how to do the things I already had in mind, into actual maps. So good things to come soon!http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2013/09/new-tech-stuff-for-this-sanetra-zywiec.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-5490044604251347248Sun, 08 Sep 2013 02:35:00 +00002013-09-15T17:41:23.911-04:00Sometimes things aren't in the country where you would expect to find them!<span style="color: #e06666;"><i>This was actually written March 2012, but it somehow went into draft mode after two days, and stayed there. Just noticed, so re-posting it now. </i></span><br /><br />This post is a bit more indirectly about Żywiec-Zabłocie, Poland. I'm about to celebrate my 16th wedding anniversary with my husband. We love to celebrate by visiting a city and seeing the history, museums and art in that city. We are going to Washington DC again and were making decisions on places to visit. This place is at the top of our list: <a href="http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/welcome.html">http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/welcome.html</a> click on that link to see a video about the place, Hillwood Museum. It is about 16 minutes in length, and I found it all fascinating. Lots of footage of the house, the gardens, a daughter talking about the house and others explaining what the museum is. Here is another link about the woman who created the museum then donated the whole museum to the public. There's several other links at the top of the page: <a href="http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/mmp.html">http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/mmp.html</a> Marjorie Post, was heir to the Post cereal company. In the video it tells about Marjorie went to Russia and bought chalices and crowns thrown in shops so badly tarnished she didn't even realize they were silver. But she knew they were good art. A lot of Russian royal and religious things were destroyed and gotten rid of during revolution and war times. But Marjorie Post purchased and fixed up a lot of things and they are on display in her house. She bought this house to be a museum to display all the things she had to share with the public.<br /><br />I can't wait to explore the museum! Then I&nbsp; started thinking, who would have thought, a woman in the United States would have Russian royalty and religious things in her home? ...And who would have thought the Soviets would have had those records that are now in the Auschwitz? (See blog post 29 Aug 2010 or see tag Auschwitz.) I was also surprised that Stanley Sanetra who lived in Minneapolis, then moved to Chicago and worked there, that his retirement record was stored in Atlanta, Georgia. The reason is because the collection got large, so the National Archives moved Chicago railroad retirement records for the Chicago area to Atlanta, Georgia. <br /><br />So my point in making this post today is, that things are often not where we expect them to be. War, revolutions, or just simply needing more space for record collections can move where things are kept.http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2013/09/sometimes-things-arent-in-country-where.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-506970354880348157Sun, 08 Sep 2013 02:32:00 +00002013-09-07T22:40:55.083-04:00AlfredaBronislaw SanetraEllis IslandGowinJanek or JanikJozef SanetraKarol Janik and his cousin Andrew Gowin's family. A connection to Adam Sanetra?Adam Sanetra, his wife Alfreda, and children Bronislaw, and Jozef left Chicago in 1922. They arrived through the Southampton, England port 6 Jun 1922, on their way to Zywiec-Zablocie Poland.&nbsp; Adam and Alfreda's daughter Jadwiga Sanetra was born 23 Mar 1923. Four months later, 13 Jul 1923, Adam Sanetra went back to the United States. Money was difficult, and Adam knew he could get work in Chicago. He also went to look for the rest of his children. Family letters in the1960's tell us these things. Here is the Ellis Island record of Adam returning in 1923. Hopefully you can see this well. These images are "snippets" or screen shots, with Adam's line highlighted. Click to view full screen.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8omArvu7Jqg/UiujwnJhujI/AAAAAAAAM6Y/6aFvSf4L_vs/s1600/1923-Adam+Sanetra-Ellis+Island-pg+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="73" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8omArvu7Jqg/UiujwnJhujI/AAAAAAAAM6Y/6aFvSf4L_vs/s320/1923-Adam+Sanetra-Ellis+Island-pg+1.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adam Sanetra -1923 Ellis Island page 1</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rKjwougYXdo/UiulOcQmMpI/AAAAAAAAM6k/7V9etDIt9RM/s1600/1923-Adam+Sanetra-Ellis+Island-pg+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="99" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rKjwougYXdo/UiulOcQmMpI/AAAAAAAAM6k/7V9etDIt9RM/s320/1923-Adam+Sanetra-Ellis+Island-pg+2.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adam Sanetra -1923 Ellis Island page 2</td></tr></tbody></table>The only cut off part, is the rest of the word "Chicago" on page one. Page 2 is the rest of the word "Poland", and "Zablocie" spelled incorrectly. The thing that puzzles me, is that Adam lists Karol Janik as his brother in law. I still cannot find a connection. It must be through Alfreda's family because I do not know as much about her family. I know people made stuff up for Ellis Island, but to say "brother in law" is not that common for relationships. "Friend" was much more common, which Adam could have said. Here is the link to Adam's record on Ellis Island: <a href="http://www.ellisisland.org/search/shipManifest.asp?MID=16227133940260322368&amp;pID=602107080077&amp;lookup=602107080077&amp;show=\\192.168.100.11\images\T715-3328\T715-33280130.TIF&amp;origFN=\\192.168.100.11\images\T715-3328\T715-33280131.TIF&amp;fromEI=1">http://www.ellisisland.org/search/shipManifest.asp?MID=16227133940260322368&amp;pID=602107080077&amp;lookup=602107080077&amp;show=\\192.168.100.11\images\T715-3328\T715-33280130.TIF&amp;origFN=\\192.168.100.11\images\T715-3328\T715-33280131.TIF&amp;fromEI=1</a><br />Here is a close up of the note about Karol (Karl or Carl in English).<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h7d14kCLQXc/Uium2brMSeI/AAAAAAAAM6w/beDc1xphpIs/s1600/1923-Adam+Sanetra-Ellis+Island-close+up+Karol.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="96" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h7d14kCLQXc/Uium2brMSeI/AAAAAAAAM6w/beDc1xphpIs/s320/1923-Adam+Sanetra-Ellis+Island-close+up+Karol.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />I've looked at Karol Janik as much as I could find the last two years, with my limitations. One other possible connection between Adam and Karol may be with Karol Janik's first wife. I have no idea who she could be. Karol was a widow when he came to America. The widow status is stated on Ellis Island ship manifest and his marriage record to Julia. On Karol's obituary the only children listed are Julia's children. Karol was from Zablocie, just like Adam. Karol stated on Ellis Island manifest he was going to see his cousin Andrew Gowin, in NY. I wasn't sure at first who this Andrew was, but Adam Sanetra's mother was Franciszka Gowin. <br /><br />There were actually a few Karol Janik's, arriving close in time. The way I know that I have the right one, on Ellis Island, is that I found Karol's naturalization record, with the address of 1058 Marshfield Ave. On there, he stated the ship, and date of arrival at Ellis Island: 16 May 1906. By 1910, Karol was in Chicago. I haven't been able to find him on the 1910 Census yet, but he married Julia in 1910 in Chicago. He is not with his cousin Andrew in NY on the 1910 Census.&nbsp; Interestingly, Karol's cousin was a tailor, like Karol.<br /><br />I followed Andrew Gowin on Ellis Island and on the census. Andrew was born 1872. (6 years older than Karol) Andrew's brother Antoni came first in 1899 (arriving in Boston instead of Ellis Island, going immediately to NY), traveling to his uncle Andrew Cohen. Then Andrew and his sister Apolonia arrived in 1901, going to Antoni's house. Then Andrew went back to get his mother, Mary Wieczovek, arriving<span style="color: black;"></span> in 1907. They were all tailors and dressmakers. In fact Andrews's first visis said he had been in Paris 18 months, he was a tailor and his sister a dressmaker. So it would make sense why Karol would first start out with them, until he could go to Chicago. But I wonder if Karol knew anyone in Chicago? Andrew's father was Jan Gowin, his mother Mary born about 1850, was a widow when he brought her to America. So what I can see in summary:<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Jan Gowin died before 1907, was married to Mary Wieczovek.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>1) Andrew born about 1872</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>2) Antoni born 19 Mar 1873</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3) Apolonia Gowin born about 1880</i></span></div><br />I don't know any connection I have yet to these Gowin's. I also can't see the connection between Karol and Adam yet. But I figured I'd put out what I found on ship registries, Census, WWI and state census records so far. <br /><br />http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2013/09/karol-janik-and-his-cousin-andrew.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-2426020199416440255Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:16:00 +00002013-08-02T09:01:57.156-04:00BielKankakeeStanley SanetraThomas SanetraStanley Sanetra in Kankakee, Illinois<i>(2 Aug 2013-comments continue this post. Death certificate said "fireman for railroad" and my mind thought of one who puts out fires. See comments as well.)</i><br /><br />I found that Stanley Sanetra, the son of Thomas Sanetra and Jadwiga Biel died 8 Dec 1971 in Kankakee, Illinois. He is buried in Maternity Catholic Cemetery in Bourbonnais, Illinois. (Part of Kankakee county.) I called the cemetery to confirm this and they said that he is buried there, but the records did not give a plot number, he was sorry. He explained to me that this cemetery was the parish cemetery for Bourbonnais, and it got a little big for them to handle, so it became part of Joliet parish. The only notation was that Stanley had a sister Helen Cooper. Stanley's sister Helen was the informant on the death certificate. She also was the one who found my grandpa Paul Sanetra and wrote him several times, called him, and I think even met him once. The death certificate says Stanley was a fireman for the railroad. I imagine that was very hard for him to be in that bad fire accident then, when he was a fireman. This Stanley lived right around where my family lived, (Paul and Katherine's families lived in Kankakee) and his birth day was so close to our Stanley's. Stanley son of Adam, born 14 Apr 1904. Stanley son of Thomas, born 4 Jun 1904. http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2013/07/stanley-sanetra-in-kankakee-illinois.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-4313496349923404103Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:49:00 +00002013-04-07T12:49:41.410-04:00CaputaDendysGielataGowinKlosakKozkaMazurkiewiczOczkowska or OczkowskiSanetraWandzelZyzakOczkowski, Oczkowska, and Sanetra sisters- Żywiec, Bielsko, PolandAdam Sanetra was the youngest of seven children. Here's Adam's siblings and their spouses with the <span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"><u><b>Oczkowska&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></u><span style="background-color: white;"> connections </span></span><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="background-color: white;">(and a Klosak)</span></span>:<br /><b><i>Children of Jozef Sanetra and Franciska Gowin </i></b><br />1. Karol Sanetra- born and died Jan 1865<br />2. Ludwig Jozef Sanetra- born and died Mar 1866<br />3. Maria Sanetra born 1867. Married Maciej Caputa 1888. Maciej born 1842. <span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">Maria and Maciej's daughter Elzbieta Caputa married <u><b>Jozef Oczkowska</b></u> 1911</span> Żywiec-Zabłocie, Bielsko, Poland. Jozef born 1886, son of Jakub Oczkowska and Marianna Dendys. Maria Sanetra's second marriage to Wojciech Gielata in 1917. Wojciech born 1865.<br />4. Apolonia Sanetra born 1872. Married Jozef Klosak 1894. Jozef born 1862. Second marriage to <u><b><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">Jozef Oczkowski</span> </b></u>in 1905. Jozef born 1882. <br />5. Katarzyna Sanetra born 1873. Married Jozef Kozka 1898. Jozef born 1874.<br />6. Helena Sanetra born 1875. (not sure if married or immigrated)<br />*7. Adam Sanetra born 1876. Married Rosalie Wandzel 1900. Second marriage to Alfreda Mazukiewicz 1920. <br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZEbd_YNRwgM/UWGg1zXklgI/AAAAAAAACRM/fls5UUr6g60/s1600/1894-Klosak,+Jozef-Aplonia+Sanetra+marriage.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="70" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZEbd_YNRwgM/UWGg1zXklgI/AAAAAAAACRM/fls5UUr6g60/s200/1894-Klosak,+Jozef-Aplonia+Sanetra+marriage.JPG" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;1894-Klosak, Jozef-Aplonia Sanetra marriage</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1X5MibjBUjE/UWGhLDRmplI/AAAAAAAACRU/xGluvLwnYAo/s1600/1905-Oczkowski,+Jozef-Apolonia+Sanetra+mar.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="70" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1X5MibjBUjE/UWGhLDRmplI/AAAAAAAACRU/xGluvLwnYAo/s200/1905-Oczkowski,+Jozef-Apolonia+Sanetra+mar.JPG" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1905-Oczkowski, Jozef-Apolonia Sanetra mar</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yU0m5W1BWxE/UWGhj_5dSlI/AAAAAAAACRc/SY-Ij0V9g84/s1600/1911-Oczkowska,+Jozef-Caputa,+Elzbieta+Caputa+mar.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="80" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yU0m5W1BWxE/UWGhj_5dSlI/AAAAAAAACRc/SY-Ij0V9g84/s200/1911-Oczkowska,+Jozef-Caputa,+Elzbieta+Caputa+mar.JPG" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1911-Oczkowska, Jozef-Caputa, Elzbieta Caputa mar</td></tr></tbody></table>I know that Maria Sanetra was in Poland in 1923 when Adam went back to Poland, and that Adam stayed with his sister and brought his family there. (The family he could find: Wife Alfreda and children Bronislaw and Jozef) But that is all that I know of or heard mentioned. We do not have death dates. So by 1923, that leaves siblings Apolonia, Katarzyna and Helena most likely living. Are they still in Poland? Or did they immigrate? One person that interests me is Apolonia. She was married to a Klosak and an Oczkowski. Both those families immigrated same times our family was leaving. I only know Jozef Klosak's marriage date, but wish I knew his parents to see if maybe he was a sibling of Marianna Klosak who brought Bronislawa Sanetra to this country. If that was so, then Marianna would indeed be an aunt of Bronislawa. I've including the marriage info I have. It's really hard to read. It was done in really early digital image days. I'm so grateful someone took these pictures for me. If I can read it right, I think Jozef Klosak's mother's maiden name is Zyzak. Maybe the Latin form of Agnes? My guess is Agnes Zyzak. I can't read the fathers name at all. Click on images to view full screen. http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2013/04/oczkowski-oczkowska-and-sanetra-sisters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-7619660432844578436Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:02:00 +00002013-02-17T07:29:17.892-05:00AustriahandicapMatuszekNazi'sKarolina Matuszek's picture helps me<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S6NrMK6Yo-c/USCsItgPbZI/AAAAAAAAB9w/JldOJ8vAPrE/s1600/1916-1917-abt-Matuszek,+Karolina-Vienna-text.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S6NrMK6Yo-c/USCsItgPbZI/AAAAAAAAB9w/JldOJ8vAPrE/s320/1916-1917-abt-Matuszek,+Karolina-Vienna-text.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Karolina has braids on top her head &amp; is smiling</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Soon I hope to tell more of Karolina's story. But today, I just wanted to tell why I like this picture. This is is a picture of Karolina at a school for deaf children in Vienna, about 1916 or 1917. Karolina went to this school for 8 years, and learned German. Karolina's family all learned German to communicate with her when she got home. A handicap was deadly at that time, especially if the Gestapo knew about it. And Karolina lived where the Gestapo invaded. Sometimes we don't know why things happen. But I do believe good things can come from overcoming difficult challenges. Karolina's family was able to be part of the resistance, because they knew German. Karolina was not killed because of a handicap, as many were at that time. Many people never knew she was deaf, she had an excellent education. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gK_yrrht6v8/USCxAPwTH4I/AAAAAAAAB-I/orL7VCDSgTw/s1600/wheelchair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gK_yrrht6v8/USCxAPwTH4I/AAAAAAAAB-I/orL7VCDSgTw/s200/wheelchair.jpg" width="141" /></a></div>I am personally having some challenges, and am considered handicapped. I have trouble walking. I also sometimes have problems with my hands. I have leg braces and knee braces and am braced up most my legs. I use canes to help balance, and a walker. Sometimes I just can't walk at all and use a wheelchair. It's now extremely difficult (and some days impossible) for me to walk up stairs. But my house is 2 stories. My bedroom and bathroom are upstairs and the kitchen is downstairs. I never wanted to move again, but I am moving to a one level house in a month. I just got a wheelchair in November. There is so much to learn and adjust to, it is a bit overwhelming some times. Trying to relearn how to do everything from sitting! But when I sit in my office, and see Karolina's smiling picture, it makes me smile. I think that she would have understood. We had to learn different things, but we both have had to learn to adapt and adjust. Karolina is smiling, looking like she might be happy to be on an adventure. I'm happy I get to learn with my family. I think going away from home, to another country for so long, would be hard, but definitely adventurous. An investment in the future.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MVX8aVKEm7E/USCys7AYWEI/AAAAAAAAB-U/dbLuPjyDS9k/s1600/walker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MVX8aVKEm7E/USCys7AYWEI/AAAAAAAAB-U/dbLuPjyDS9k/s200/walker.jpg" width="145" /></a></div>Many times the people who went before us understand and can teach us from their many experiences. But even more than just people, our ancestors. Often times, when we are doing something hard, someone else has done that too. Maybe you didn't know before, because you can't always tell from looking at someone. Learning more about them, or looking at that picture may help. You can remember they survived the hard days too! Another thing that cheers me up, is that I even have this picture. It's pretty amazing how I got it and the story with it. A relative who our family lost contact with, (many years ago) saw my blog, and reconnected with me. This picture is from Jolanta Piecuch and her father Adolf Sanetra. http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/karolina-matuszeks-picture-helps-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354760123722384916.post-4410464566674333499Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:04:00 +00002013-01-10T03:58:41.396-05:00digitizingpreservingvideo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2e-uffPissM/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2e-uffPissM?version=3&f=user_uploads&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2e-uffPissM?version=3&f=user_uploads&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div>A friend of mine writes a food blog. I test her recipes. I have food allergies, she does all allergy friendly recipes. Sometimes it is hard for me to visualize things though. Her family talked her into doing video clips on her blog. I found them immensely helpful. I have had several friends tell me I too should post some videos about my work in digitizing and research. I will try to brave it like my friend. A few years ago (Sep 2009) I did a test and made this video clip with just a webcam on my computer. A few people said I should post it on my blog. I will try to start a video page. Not sure what all video clips I can get. Maybe I can get some video clips of my grandparents telling old stories about Paul and Catherine too. So here starts an experiment. Note, there is a new video page added, with this clip. Underneath the welcome heading of the blog. http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-friend-of-mine-writes-food-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Julie Nielsen Cabitto)0